Honda Confirms V4 Sportbike

Might be a replacement for my vfr when it comes out, we shall see.

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Mods: Please move to General Motorcycle Discussion. I was not fully awake when I rushed to post this...lol
 
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Cool! Those old honda v4 bikes sounded awesome.
 
Can't bring myself to care. Aprilia offers the RSV4 Factory today for around $22K Canadian. Comes with over 180hp, GP-quality traction control, the best handling frame in the industry, lightweight wheels, Brembo brakes, Ohlins suspension front/rear and a V4 motor. It's been in production for four years and apparently gets a 20hp/-20lb update for 2013 (rumour at this point, however).

The Honda V4 will be a HRC unit - more expensive. Less supported. No more desirable, IMHO.

If you want this bike, you can buy one right now.
 
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i never really got the hype of a V4 engine. i had one for a brief period. granted it was old as hell. a 1985. the power delivery was just so bland.. i didnt feel the diff between that and my 250 in lower rpms.. high up in the rev range; yea it had some guts. but it was just sooo smooth that it was plain boring for me.

shameless plug: http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforum/showthread.php?163849-1985-Honda-VF750F-Parts-bike
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Try a Gen 2 VMax for the V4 experience.
 
Shaman said:
Can't bring myself to care. Aprilia offers the RSV4 Factory today for around $22K Canadian. Comes with over 180hp, GP-quality traction control, the best handling frame in the industry, lightweight wheels, Brembo brakes, Ohlins suspension front/rear and a V4 motor. It's been in production for four years and apparently gets a 20hp/-20lb update for 2013 (rumour at this point, however).

The Honda V4 will be a HRC unit - more expensive. Less supported. No more desirable, IMHO.

If you want this bike, you can buy one right now.
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If Honda builds a new V4 flagship superbike..... :lol: @ no more desireable

Hopefully by then Aprilia lines up a ground-up redesign of the RSV4... for their sake.
 
Yeah, because it's not much of a bike now. It just keeps beating the S1000RR again and again at the track... and sounds awesome... and comes with world-beating traction control... and looks awesome... and has brembo brakes... and ohlins suspension... and variable intake manifolds... and two year warranty... and has won "bike of the year" several times over the last three years... yeah the current bike's a real turd. It modifies really poorly too, KWS only got 206whp out of theirs on pump gas when they put a road-race build on it, for shame!

Hopefully, although I don't hold out much, you can sense my sarcasm.

I'm thinking if HRC really does bring this bike out, it'll be sucking hind tit on both cost and performance. But who knows... I really hope that it *does* exceed my expectations.
 
I get it, you're an Aprilia fanboy. :lol:

The RSV4 is already 5 years old. I don't care how good it is now, the Honda will be the "it" bike whenever they release it; the RSV4, if unchanged, is gonna be 6-7 years old by then. No competition.
 
I'm really not. I'm just a fan of that bike, and I don't see what Honda is going to bring to the table to beat it.

But as far as fanboys go... it sure seems you don't know much about the RSV4. First model year was 2009 (available in early 2009). There have been four iterations of it since then (Factory, R model, Biaggi, current). Next year will see a number of changes including the addition of ABS, by the look of it. Scuttlebutt says considerably more power is coming.

So take the existing bike which has won just about all the track reviews by lap time and rider testimony... add some power, freshen the look a bit, make ABS optional... you have the Porsche 911 of bikes: a solid base with continual improvement. This is wrong? If it is, Honda and BMW didn't get the memo (maybe Suzuki should have, but then... it's still a winning bike in a number of ways).
 
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The final bike was shown early 2008. We're nearing end of '12 now. I understand that you feel its the greatest motorcycle ever built and no further updating is EVER necessary, but they'll have to redesign it eventually. A good time would be if/when Honda launches a competing product.
 
I bought my street Suzuki in fall of 2009 and built it in 2010. When I built it, it was because I couldn't get the RSV4 until at least 2011 (or so I was told, this turned out not to be true). I saw it at its FIRST appearance in North America in December of 2009 at the show. First-string buyers could get the bike in 2008 but they were rare and all in other countries (europe and oddly, Australia). Canada got some of the first generation bikes - in 2010 - but not many at all - I was told there were 7 Factories imported in 2010... but I cannot verify that.

I have wanted this bike a long time and it's kinda killing me that I am not going to buy one, because the Tuono is just a much better street bike. I've ridden (and ridden with) the RSV4 a lot and it's more of a racing bike than my racing bikes. Maybe when my GSX-Rs get older I'll put one on the track but I doubt it... the Suzukis are cheap and easy to track. Maybe an APRC bike will show up salvagable or used some day and I'll spring.
 
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FYI, my friend Brian has a RC-30. They are as good as you think they might be.

From our Gap trip this year:

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The over-observant may recognize a little something or two that has been fabbed...
 
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